Xen users - Apr 2006 - Hardware compatibility - Dell Inspiron 6400 or thinkpad t60?

Hi,
Since a while I am curious to buy a machine with hardware virtualization 
support. Finally, they start to become available here in Germany.

So, I want to get such a machine. I want to buy a dell inspiron 6400 or 
an IBM thinkpad T60 which are said to have such a mobile processor with 
hardware virtualization - does anybody have experiences with these?

Looking in the Hardware compatibility page in the wiki, and the one 
which is linked from the xensource.com download page(results from xen 
test cd, seems not be updated since a while), I see that there is not 
even a single machine listed as compatible with xen which has one of the 
new core duo pentium D 9xx processors or the centrino duo processors 
which are said to have hardware virtualization.

Can, in general the support for unmodified guest in xen as well as in 
the hardware that can be bought really be called mature, and ready for 
production?

Henning

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I am using xen-3.0.2 in Centos-4.2 Dom-0 and have the below line in my
config file

vif = [''mac=aa:00:00:4b:46:8f, bridge=xenbr0, vifname=myvps'']

which works fine for me. I have configured 3 ips on this dom-U and I am
ale to communicate using each ips.

Thanks
Sadique


Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
> Since a while I am curious to buy a machine with hardware
> virtualization support. Finally, they start to become available here
> in Germany.
>
> So, I want to get such a machine. I want to buy a dell inspiron 6400
> or an IBM thinkpad T60 which are said to have such a mobile processor
> with hardware virtualization - does anybody have experiences with these?
>
> Looking in the Hardware compatibility page in the wiki, and the one
> which is linked from the xensource.com download page(results from xen
> test cd, seems not be updated since a while), I see that there is not
> even a single machine listed as compatible with xen which has one of
> the new core duo pentium D 9xx processors or the centrino duo
> processors which are said to have hardware virtualization.
>
> Can, in general the support for unmodified guest in xen as well as in
> the hardware that can be bought really be called mature, and ready for
> production?
>
> Henning
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-users mailing list
> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>
>

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Hi,

Sadique wrote:
> I am using xen-3.0.2 in Centos-4.2 Dom-0 and have the below line in my
> config file
> 
> vif = [''mac=aa:00:00:4b:46:8f, bridge=xenbr0,
vifname=myvps'']
> 
> which works fine for me. I have configured 3 ips on this dom-U and I am
> ale to communicate using each ips.

Could you please explain what your reply has to do with my question (see 
below)?
Are you running this setup on one of the mentioned machines?

> 
> Henning Sprang wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> Since a while I am curious to buy a machine with hardware
>> virtualization support. Finally, they start to become available here
>> in Germany.
>>
>> So, I want to get such a machine. I want to buy a dell inspiron 6400
>> or an IBM thinkpad T60 which are said to have such a mobile processor
>> with hardware virtualization - does anybody have experiences with
these?
>>
>> Looking in the Hardware compatibility page in the wiki, and the one
>> which is linked from the xensource.com download page(results from xen
>> test cd, seems not be updated since a while), I see that there is not
>> even a single machine listed as compatible with xen which has one of
>> the new core duo pentium D 9xx processors or the centrino duo
>> processors which are said to have hardware virtualization.
>>
>> Can, in general the support for unmodified guest in xen as well as in
>> the hardware that can be bought really be called mature, and ready for
>> production?
>>
>> Henning
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xen-users mailing list
>> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>>
>>
> 
> 
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I am running FC5 on a T60p , VT works out of the box (you have to enable 
VT support in the bios first), the only problem right now is the sata 
support on the current FC5 XEN kernel is somehow broken, i get a warning 
like : ata1 is slow to respond  please be patient and the kernel oops and 
reboots ...

Sven




Henning Sprang <henning_sprang@gmx.net> 
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04/18/2006 09:41 AM

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Re: [Xen-users] Hardware compatibility - Dell Inspiron 6400     or 
thinkpad t60?






Hi,

Sadique wrote:
> I am using xen-3.0.2 in Centos-4.2 Dom-0 and have the below line in my
> config file
> 
> vif = [''mac=aa:00:00:4b:46:8f, bridge=xenbr0,
vifname=myvps'']
> 
> which works fine for me. I have configured 3 ips on this dom-U and I am
> ale to communicate using each ips.

Could you please explain what your reply has to do with my question (see 
below)?
Are you running this setup on one of the mentioned machines?

> 
> Henning Sprang wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> Since a while I am curious to buy a machine with hardware
>> virtualization support. Finally, they start to become available here
>> in Germany.
>>
>> So, I want to get such a machine. I want to buy a dell inspiron 6400
>> or an IBM thinkpad T60 which are said to have such a mobile processor
>> with hardware virtualization - does anybody have experiences with 
these?
>>
>> Looking in the Hardware compatibility page in the wiki, and the one
>> which is linked from the xensource.com download page(results from xen
>> test cd, seems not be updated since a while), I see that there is not
>> even a single machine listed as compatible with xen which has one of
>> the new core duo pentium D 9xx processors or the centrino duo
>> processors which are said to have hardware virtualization.
>>
>> Can, in general the support for unmodified guest in xen as well as in
>> the hardware that can be bought really be called mature, and ready for
>> production?
>>
>> Henning
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xen-users mailing list
>> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>>
>>
> 
> 
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Hello,

I am sorry. This reply was made by mistake. This was intended for one
other post in mailing list and replied this post in error.

Thanks
Sadique


Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sadique wrote:
>
>> I am using xen-3.0.2 in Centos-4.2 Dom-0 and have the below line in my
>> config file
>>
>> vif = [''mac=aa:00:00:4b:46:8f, bridge=xenbr0,
vifname=myvps'']
>>
>> which works fine for me. I have configured 3 ips on this dom-U and I am
>> ale to communicate using each ips.
>
>
>
> Could you please explain what your reply has to do with my question
> (see below)?
> Are you running this setup on one of the mentioned machines?
>
>
>>
>> Henning Sprang wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Since a while I am curious to buy a machine with hardware
>>> virtualization support. Finally, they start to become available
here
>>> in Germany.
>>>
>>> So, I want to get such a machine. I want to buy a dell inspiron
6400
>>> or an IBM thinkpad T60 which are said to have such a mobile
processor
>>> with hardware virtualization - does anybody have experiences with
>>> these?
>>>
>>> Looking in the Hardware compatibility page in the wiki, and the one
>>> which is linked from the xensource.com download page(results from
xen
>>> test cd, seems not be updated since a while), I see that there is
not
>>> even a single machine listed as compatible with xen which has one
of
>>> the new core duo pentium D 9xx processors or the centrino duo
>>> processors which are said to have hardware virtualization.
>>>
>>> Can, in general the support for unmodified guest in xen as well as
in
>>> the hardware that can be bought really be called mature, and ready
for
>>> production?
>>>
>>> Henning
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Xen-users mailing list
>>> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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Hi,

Sven Oehme wrote:
> 
> I am running FC5 on a T60p , VT works out of the box (you have to enable 
> VT support in the bios first), the only problem right now is the sata 
> support on the current FC5 XEN kernel is somehow broken, i get a warning 
> like : ata1 is slow to respond  please be patient and the kernel oops 
> and reboots ...
Sounds good, if I can''t resolve the following problems, I''m
gonna spend
the additional 500€ to get such a machine instead of the dell.

I just have the dell inspiron 6400 here ( which was already ordered 
before my post).

It has no switch in the BIOS to switch vm support on and off.

/proc/cpuinfo shows a flag called "vme" - is this the vm feature?
( I am a bit confused because it''s always called different,m here on
the
list people seem to refer to it also as "hvm" and "vmx" -
not sure if
there''s  a different between each of them.

Still, when trying to run the xmx guest from the xenoppix cd ( don''t 
want to install anything because I probably gonna send the machine 
back), the system just crashes and reboots.

For those just interested in "normal" xen compatibility: the
domU''s from
the xen demo cd seem to work fine, although there seem to be problems 
with the network devices, which cannot be configured in dom0. Networking 
devices work on an Ubuntu live cd, where again I have no xen, and X 
doesn''t work. So this machine is some cheap, but therefore not very
nice
working hardware.

Henning

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